![]() ![]() there is often an archival and/or personal use provision). Also, copying of closed source copyrighted material is not necessarily copyright infringement, as most countries have fair use provisions (e.g. That is to say, in countries that have copyright laws, infringing those will always be illegal, it is just that different things count as infringement in different countries. It was my understanding that copyright infringement is always illegal, and in places where it is not, this is because it is not considered copyright infringement. The article says that "copyright infingement is illegal in most countries". Mark Grant 15:05, 13 April 2007 (UTC) Reply Copyright infringement illegal? ![]() if my DVD player software plays it correctly, then I can burn disks knowing that they'll work. iso file and I can mount it with Daemon Tools as though it was a real DVD. Ben Morris 18:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC) Reply I use it to test DVDs before I burn them to disk. And also, some people don't waste money on CD-ROM drives on all their machines, preferring to have just one machine with a CD drive and use that machine to make images which are moved over a LAN to the machine that uses the software. Also, copying a CD to an image on the hard disk is a valid way to prevent scratching of an expensive original disk. People who have a lot of games or other software which require the CD to be in to use find it very irritating to constantly have to change the CD in the drive. ShaunMacPherson 19:09, 18 August 2005 (UTC) Reply There are indeed legitimates reasons to use this. I really hope this software is released under a open source license (like the GNU GPL), too many good closed sourced programs like this, and DVD Shrink / DVD Decryptor are being threatened out of existance because of the copyright war. I agree, this article's bit about copyright infringment REALLY makes it seem like this program (and all others hy people use this program would be similiar to other disk image emulation programs) and give a quick summary. I don't know personally, but wouldn't this be a good place to put reasons why Daemon Tools are useful? Aside from its actual function, what would it actually be used to do? Are there legitimate uses for it, aside from bypassing copyright protection? Thray 14:27, (UTC) ![]()
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